Amazon.com is apparently shelving its planned effort to sell wine online. A little more than a year after word of the effort trickled out, a senior Amazon account manager told wineries in an e-mail that the company has decided “not to resume shipping.” “As you know, we were excited to work with you to build the AmazonWine business,” Dini Rao said in an e-mail first reported by WineBusiness.com.... 

There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week’s first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers. Rackspace reports that as of March 30 the company’s data centers house 50,038 servers, up from 47,518 at the end of 2008. Of the companies that publicly report their server counts, only European... 

On the third anniversary of its Elastic Compute Cloud launch, Amazon Web Services late Tuesday announced a new service, the Virtual Private Cloud. Targeted at customers with existing IT investments, the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service provides a way for companies to create a logically separated set of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and a secure VPN connection to their own networks. Amazon Web Services illustrates...